Patent 7235999 was granted and assigned to Xilinx on June, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Method and apparatus for a system monitor embedded in a programmable logic device are described. The system monitor includes a dynamic reconfiguration port interface for configuring or reconfiguring the system monitor during operation thereof. The system monitor includes an analog-to-digital converter which is reconfigurable responsive to input via a dynamic reconfiguration port.